Helvetian variations on the topic 'Engagement and Literature.' (Post Festum: Switzerland and the World) From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Loetscher, Hugo; von Nardroff, Ellen; von Nardroff, Ernest H. | COPYRIGHT 1993 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The deaths of Friedrich Durrenmatt and Max Frisch seem inseparable from the context of their political statements and this encapsulates the Swiss preoccupation with the politically engaged writer. Swiss literature has a tradition of writers such as Albin Zollinger and Jakob Buhrer who have written for their socialist views and Jakob Schaffner who wrote for his right wing ideas. However, politically involved novels become didactic and Gottfried Keller realised this and largely wrote novels set...

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